How on earth did it get past the editors at the Globe & Mail?
It makes all the important points about how useless and utopian it is to try to legislate "hate" away, and that most normal individuals don't need protection against 'derisive' speech-they can hit delete, or ignore it.
She rightly notes that direct calls for violence must be the line in the sand-and that is what the criminal code is for.
This is just music to my ears:
"Unfortunately, Canada, once a brave country of explorers, has become a “mommy state” in the grip of a vast clique of moralizers who encourage people to be extraordinarily sensitive to the slightest insult, as if reaching victimhood status were a goal in life. It’s censorship by another name, and also a pathetically naive attempt to eradicate evil from the face of the Earth and reconstruct the human mind."
The whole thing is fantastic, and the last two paragraphs should be required reading for every Canadian, and every freedom loving person in Western society:
"The reason why bigots and racists should be free to express their opinions, as unpleasant as they are, is that when the state starts repressing “bad” ideas, it ends up repressing other ideas, too, especially those that go against society’s predominant views. Remember Galileo, who was tried by the Roman Inquisition for saying the Earth revolved around the sun? Today’s Galileos should be encouraged to defy public opinion and express unpopular ideas."
"A liberal, open-minded law against hate speech? That’s an oxymoron. There’s no possible reconciliation between freedom of speech and hate-speech laws, however they’re written or reformulated. A civilized, progressive society should opt for freedom of speech, period."
Read and circulate-this is a beauty. 
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